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RE: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd)
From: blitz <blitz () macronet net>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:59:11 -0400
But THAT was when phones had cranks on the side. ;)5 nines is a myth, conjured up by sales cretins to have something to sell...If I remember, 5 nines translates to 6 minutes outage a YEAR..?
(Correct me if I'm wrong here)It's a marketing ploy for liar sales people and CEO's, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with real-world conditions.
BTW - One of my best friends growing up ( and we took EE together ) grandfather was the V.P. in charge of AT&T's LongLines division while a lot of the "wire was pulled". From what he said of his grandfather's remarks, they didn't think about five 9's. The question was how much spare/redundant capacity did you have, both for dependability and to support the countries growth. Not exactly "this quarter's profit" thinking -sigh-.
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- Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd), (continued)
- Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) Art Houle (Apr 24)
- Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) Dan Hollis (Apr 24)
- Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) Marshall Eubanks (Apr 24)
- Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 24)
- Re: The Pointlessness of Five 9's Reliability John R. Levine (Apr 24)
- Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) measl (Apr 24)
- Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) Mathew Lodge (Apr 24)
- RE: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) Deepak Jain (Apr 25)
- RE: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) Deepak Jain (Apr 25)
- RE: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) Bruce Williams (Apr 24)
- RE: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) blitz (Apr 25)
- Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) Art Houle (Apr 24)
- Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) Jim Hickstein (Apr 26)